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Idle Five – Basketball Manager – Sports Game Review
Idle Five – Basketball Manager is a Sports/Simulation game from Gaminho, first launched in 30th November 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 21,791+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Idle Five – Basketball Manager Stand Out
Ready to be a basketball millionaire? Or a billionaire, perhaps? Welcome to Idle Five!
Create your personalized basketball club, recruit the most valuable players, swipe to earn tons of cash, grow and manage your dream team and become the best sport tycoon… EVER!
FEATURES:
▪ CREATE the basketball club of your dream (city, name, jersey, logo)
▪ RECRUIT top players in the transfer market to build your dream team
▪ COLLECT the money generated by these players (casual and easy swipe based gameplay)
▪ RECEIVE idle cash, even when you are offline
▪ TRAIN your players and upgrade their basketball skills (shooting, passing, dribbling, defense…) to multiply their value and the money they generate
▪ PARTICIPATE in business events to earn amazing amounts of cash
▪ TRAVEL through the world and challenge the best basketball teams
▪ PLAY and WIN intense tactical matches in a NBA‘s atmosphere
▪ MANAGE the formation of your dream team
▪ SHARE your unique five with your friends and the world!
▪ PLAY ANYWHERE! – Free to play online or offline, no connection required.
If you like idle games, clicker games, tycoon games, tapping games, basketball games… you will enjoy this casual management clicker!
Idle Five is a unique, free, easy-to-play game different from all the other basketball games, where you can be both a basketball manager and an insanely rich business tycoon. Manage the recruitment and finances of your club (through a super intuitive “swipe and tap” gameplay), deal with your sponsors, find the right business strategy and turn your small team into a giant basketball empire! Time to write your success story!
+++ Become the greatest and richest basketball tycoon of all time! +++
Believe us, you’ll love to create amazing clubs such as New York Kings, Los Angeles Bakers, Miami Pirates, Chicago Galactics, and make them legendary! Available for many smaller countries and cities too!
Got any problems or suggestions?
Feel free to send a message to [email protected]
Your Idle Five Team
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Idle Five – Basketball Manager is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Bug fixes & optimizations
Thank you for all your feedback and suggestions, you're way beyond awesome!
Download & Availability
Idle Five – Basketball Manager is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Idle Five – Basketball Manager on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like this game because we like idol games that arent too hard to play but ones that arent too easy.
This game is awesome we just started and it might be our favorite game.
We dont like when we choose a skill and it stays there forever like we cant continue the game.
This game is really fun. We have been playing this game for a long time now, and this game is spectacular and we think you all should play this game.
We are a big fan of this game and would love to see a nice new cool addition. After we beat the last team make it that basketball teams from space come to challenge us and we go to a new world. The space world. There we will face more basketball teams with aliens and robots and for example thanos at the end. Then the game would end.
We got this game in feb 13th we took a break for a while we decided to come back to playing but we cannot play an actual match nor tournament but really really fun overall.
Love this game it just takes up space when you have data on it! We had o thought not that much data on it. It was worth 1.38 GB.
We love this game because its so awesome. We get to play games and we love being teams.
Ive never had any ads and Ive been playing for about three months and it is super fun and it really easy.
If you are looking for a basketball game that you can build and you dont even have to play that much and it is free.
One you should name your team (no swear words) 2 make it so u can add power ups to players 3 no glitches 4 no ads after match do it when AFK we will look for more to fix.
THIS GAME IS THE BEST GAME EVER IM SO HAPPY THAT we SAW THIS ON AN AD AND THEN WHEN we GOT IT we WAS GOING INSANE GETTING A LEGENDARY STEPH CURLY STEPH CURRY DOWNLOAD IT AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY FOREVER.
Very fun very cool we love it we learn from it to.
This game has no ads free to play and no problems.
We were having so much fun in the beginning but then we started coming out with whole different modes which started overwhelming us and now Im not having as much fun with this game.
The game keeps freezing ever since we got a new player with impulsive shot. Other then that its a great game just annoying spending money on a game that freezes 24/7 since we got that new player.
This is a fun game at first but starts to get a little bit boring you should have a part to go against real people. Also please make the signings cheaper it makes us kind of mad when see a really good player and we dont have enough signing tokens to pay for players. Last thing is to make the events longer and being able to keep your extra things for the events, we can not get 53,000 things in 2 days. But still a pretty fun game Thank you for looking at our review.
Can you make it so you can go against your friends.
We been having a lot of fun playing this game, even spent some money on it but once you get a developed team your game will start crashing, Im guessing due to the abilities activating so much. Usually dont comment but its done it to us this often to where we did. Good game other than that.
Dear Guilhem, we are writing to express our concern about the lack of updates regarding the compensation for our lost in-game content. Our last communication from you was on January 21, 2025, stating that the system should be back up within a week. It is now February 8, 2025, and we have not received a compensation code or any of the items we purchased. We understand that recovering specific players like Santa might not be feasible, but we are disappointed that we have not received any compensation for the items we have proof of purchase for. We have also lost a significant amount of gold bars and other valuable items. We would greatly appreciate it if someone could get back to us with an update on the status of our compensation. Sincerely, Shadow.
Its kinda fun but we bought something for $5.43 and didnt get it.
Its so cool you can play other teams and level up and train your players.
We try to do an app and purchase And we just took our money and it didnt The stuff.
We really enjoy playing this game and it would be really cool to get a developer response. Anyways, this game is pretty simple to play and really fun, we have had no problems with the game and am addicted. Thank you guys for making this game.
This is a great game but please can you creators fix these things. First, our game most of the time crashes and when it crashes in a game we lose our energy and we have to spend gold to get 10 energy back. Next, Can you make it where you can have like 65 energy because you can only play 2 champion teams and then you have to buy more energy. Lastly, can you please make it to where you can trade skill tokens for gold or money because we have almost 2000 taunt skill tokens and they are useless because we have 4 epic players and one rare. So please can you make those 3 things happen? Still we like this game. Please do those 3 things so other people can enjoy this as much as we do. Thank you.
This is so wonderful and we feel like Im in the NBA.
This game is very good and we would recommend it to anyone.
Havent got far enough to see if its worth playing for a few months, but as of right now, definitely simple and slowly becoming addicting.
Every time when we buy Stephen curry it says purchase completed idk why its a great game but it wont let us purchase something in this game.
Once you buy the VIP and use the auto feature. You buffs start to stack very quickly. And the game cant keep up. Makes it freeze so you have to force close and start over. Really annoying. Please fix this issue.
We really like the game its so interesting and entertaining.
Cool game no complaints super awesome , but when it says we have a old save to load it gets stuck loading it at 24 percent? Other then that its perfect just wanna load our old stuff.
We love this game! We've been playing it since 2022. But we noticed whenever we tried to load in the game, it gets stuck at 24%. Please fix this sometime soon. Thank you.
Love the game but recently its been crashing every time we play it . Its done it the last 20 times , during games. Very frustrating. Stopped playing.
Would have been a great game if wasnt freezing all the time! Ever since we bought a legendary and upgraded him the game freezes a lot now! Cant even play tournament mode cause of it! Cant even progress further cause we cant get the loot.
We LOVE this game! We havent run into any errors, or problems. Its a great game to kill time and the power ups are super fun too! Honestly, Im not much of a basketball person, but this game is still super fun! And we would definitely recommend.
Very fun game we really like to play y oh should play this game.
We love the game its very fun to plau but somehow the game freezes very often where we have to close the game and restart it. We have a new phone so it shouldnt be on our end. Tried to look if there is an graphic option we could lower but sadly we couldnt find one.
We love the game and everything about it but theres A few things we would like to see. 1.) world chat/ challenging other players 2.) guilds/Squads to join 3.) other events to play. (Doesnt have to be anything crazy, just something else to do) Other than that, its a fun game.
This game is so cool every time we think of this game it feels like Im on a basketball course we love this game so much our number one game so yeah.
We love playing basketball with special Olympic athletes and the fact that lucky in international competitions sports are the most fun thing ever and instead inside and outside the this is country star champions championship game event.
Tournaments used to be the best way for us to farm signing tokens. We would win about 75% of them. Then we bought VIP and got our first Epic player. And now we cant ever even get past semi-finals. So VIP ruined our method for getting signing tokens. How are the enemy teams in tournaments decided.
We downloaded the game, played the very first match at 120 power vs our opponents 20 and only won by 5 points! If anything this a great indicator that after a few more levels all Im gonna do is lose until we pay.
This game is really fun with no ads want us to say it again NO ADS.
Yo love the game we Appreicate that yall made the vip 5 Dollars and not a monthly sub it's reasonable and worth it.
We love this game and we love the soccer one. We highly recommend both. We hope they make a football one in a baseball one the really nice calm game to play when you just wanna relax we highly recommend him God bless.
This is an amazing idle game. Has, but doesn't require ONE small, small one time purchase to get by faster, get more and actually makes it more fun. Other than that, you don't NEED to buy this and that and whatever to enjoy the game. Very fun with lots to collect and spend wisely. Not to much, not to little…but you spend so much time and resources on a roster of characters you can't get back if accidentally replaced. That is our ONE complaint. Now we don't have the awesome event robot, PF, we believe it is…just to buy another character and try to get ahead.
Pretty good overall game, Im just making this because of your ads, as soon as we stop playing the game and switch to another one, we get so many of your ads.
We really enjoy playing these types of games. We frequently watched the ads to help us progress in the game but recently the ads no longer load or afterwards the game says ad didnt finish.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.49.2
- Size: 485.83 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Gaminho
Last updated: 18th December 2025 | Genre: Sports, Simulation | Developer: Gaminho